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Why I'm A Good Traveler

Why I'm A Good Traveler

it's my weakness, not my strength

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James F. Richardson
Oct 15, 2022
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I’m in Iceland on business this weekend, and I had an epiphany of the most personal kind.

Americans imagine the ‘good traveler’ to be someone who is: gregarious, socially skilled, curious, adaptable, and affluent. This is someone who can easily float across cultural boundaries and can afford to do so (nothing like stress over travel costs to create a cr…

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